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Jeseth Delgado Vela

Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Wilkinson 203, Box 90287, Durham, NC 27708
121 Hudson Hall, Durham, NC 27708

Research Interests


Biofilms in the urban water cycle, nitrogen cycling microbial communities, public health surveillance via wastewater, and microbial communication in biofilms

Selected Grants


NSF Engineering Research Center for Precision Microbiome Engineering (PreMiEr)

ResearchInvestigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2027

CAREER: Quorum enhanced sustainable treatment of nitrogen (QuEST-N)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2027

RCN: Wastewater Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 and Emerging Public Health Threats

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Notre Dame · 2023 - 2025

Environmental stewardship of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico by leveraging microbes

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine · 2023 - 2024

External Relationships


  • Howard University

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